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Re: [OM] OT: Ich bin ein Zuik (was "Still OT but it's my turn")

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Ich bin ein Zuik (was "Still OT but it's my turn")
From: Barks <cmib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:35:00 +0000
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Joel Wilcox wrote:

> Let's see if I can guess your meaning. A "berliner" is some sort of
> pastrie? Is a bagel referred to as a "New Yorker" out east?  News to me.
> Anyway, if I were president I'd stay out of Frankfurt and Hamburg.

It was once explained to me, though this is possibly apocryphal, that a
"berliner" *would* be the Berlin equivalent of a frankfurter, i.e. some
sort of sausage whose origin is peculiar to Berlin.  So a "New Yorker"
would be something whose origins are inextricably associated with New
York, I'd guess.

--

I think that a 'Berliner'  is a sort of doughnut in that part of Germany.

Chris

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